Case of the Mondays? Well, we’ve got some free stuff to give away to cheer you up. I alluded to this in last week’s Techland Show and it’s now about to become reality. We have an autographed copy of The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition for one lucky reader.

It’s official: Reach is going to ramp up Halo to a new level of crazy. The multiplayer trailer released by Bungie a while back teased a ton of new features including jetpacks and up-close-and-personal assassinations. Now, on Bungie.net, details get discussed about how some of these features will get used. Among the most interesting …

Red Letter Media’s favorite film critic: the disturbed, yet intuitive Harry Plinkett sends Attack of the Clones through the shredder with this 90-minute review that picks apart nearly every detail of the Lucas film, all while revealing more the psychopath behind the voice.

Last week, Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade were Techland’s guest officiators for our Monster Madness final four match ups. Some raised an eyebrow at Darth Vader’s victory over Lord Voldemort, but we think we’ve got an epic match up lined up for the championship battle. The diabolical Darth Vader will take on the manipulative, persistent …

At a panel Saturday evening at WonderCon, the immense comic book convention held this past weekend at San Franciso’s Moscone Center, a cluster of comics bloggers asserted that the most popular features on their sites, by far, are lists. So, because blog readers demanded it, here’s a list of observations from this year’s

This is part of an ongoing weekly series called “Freeze Frame,” where we break down our very favorite sci-fi/fantasy/adventure moments – the scenes that we look forward to, that remind us why we so love this job. As you might guess, such discussions are riddled with spoilers. So consider yourself warned. (See previous Freeze Frame …

Let the flood of iPad accessories begin! In the little research I’ve done for this list, I noticed that the majority of accessories weren’t built specifically for the iPad. The majority are ones for netbooks. It’s a scam, people! There really aren’t very many must-haves for the oversized iPhone. However, I found the following …

Players of the first Mass Effect will remember the Mako. It was the deeply flawed wheeled personnel vehicle from ME1. People hated that thing and it’s easy to see why. The Mako jumped like a three-legged dog trying to snatch a biscuit it didn’t really want. Lining up targets with the transport’s guns was scream-inducing, since …

Baseball fan? PC owner? Look no further than the white hot MLB 2K10 deal this morning. Gamestop is selling the downloadable version for just three bucks. That’s down from the regular price of $30. I damn near spit out my coffee and tripped over my ottoman trying to get to my computer to download it this morning. It’s really an